On i nquiry, we discovered the man who had done the deed. wanted to pilfer but we found next morning that he had come to complain of his hives having been plundered. About midnight we were visited by a big fellow, who, our guides assured us. Lowe, with that ac'uteness which never deserts him in all questions of natural history, pronounced them to be the ' tame' bees, the same as he had last seen thirteen years ago among the Sen ah Dayaks, in Sarawak. Both these operations are gen- erally conducted at night, although the second might be, 1 imagine, practiced in safety during the day." With regard to'the "Land Dayaks" it is stated that, "To the left of the Sirambau are some very line tapang trees, in which the bees generally build their nests they are considered private property, and a Dayak from a neighbor- ing tribe venturing to help himself to some of this apparently wild honey and wax would be punished for theft." This is the first hint that is given of bees being considered in any respect as private property, but the following pas- sage would seem to indicate that the domestication of the honey-bee is not altogether unknown in the island :- "During the night, our rest was much disturbed by bees, which stung us sev- eral times, and Mr.
who kindle a large lire under the trees, and, throwing green branches upon it, raise so stifling a smoke that the bees rush forth, and the man ascending takes their nest in safety. This plan does not pp- pear to be as safe as that pursued by the Pakatan Dayaks. They depend upon the flambeaux they carry up with them, as, when the man disturbs the hive, the sparks falling from it cause, it is said, the bees to fly down in chase of them instead of attacking their real enemy, who then takes the hive and lowers it down by a rattan string. It requires cool and deliberate courage to take a bee- hive at so great an elevation, where, in case of being attacked by the bees, the almost naked man would fall and be dashed to atoms. Once these pegs are driven in, their outer ends are connected by a stout rattan, which, with the tree, forms a kind of ladder.
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John says -" They obtain beeswax from the nests built on the tapang tree, and climb the loftiest heights in search of it, upon small sticks which they drive in as they advance up the noble stem that rises above one hundred feet free of branches, and wuose girth varies from fifteen to twenty-five feet.
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